It was a City Council hearing featuring familiar arguments about mentally ill inmates in the jail system.
The president of the Correction Officers' Benevolent Association testified that his members didn't have the training to ensure that those detainees were receiving the proper treatment and questioned the Correction Commissioner's claim that placing them in punitive segregation accounted for the rise in violence and the use-of-force cases in the system. He also charged that city Health Department officials failed to provide the treatment those detainees needed, content to "just rubber-stamp the paperwork until something goes terribly wrong."
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